Electrical Impedance Tomography

Margaret Cheney
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


Abstract

Electrical impedance tomography systems are being developed for medical diagnostics, detection of cracks in metals, and imaging of multiphase flow. Such systems work by applying currents to electrodes at the surface of the body, measuring the resulting voltages, and reconstructing the electrical impedance in the interior of the body. This talk will focus on various problems arising in the design of such systems and in the processing of the data they measure.